Lam Kit. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 201-215). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / Chapter 1. --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1 --- Background of the Study --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2 --- Focus of the Study --- p.19 / Chapter 1.3 --- Methodology --- p.20 / Chapter 1.4 --- Structure of This Thesis --- p.23 / Chapter 1.5 --- Limitations --- p.25 / Chapter 1.6 --- Summary --- p.27 / Chapter 2. --- Literature Review / Chapter 2.1 --- "Religion: Differentiating the ""Sacred"" from the ""Profane""" --- p.30 / Chapter 2.2 --- Secularization of Protestant Christianity --- p.34 / Chapter 2.3 --- Individualization in Religion: A Sociological Perspective --- p.43 / Chapter 2.4 --- "Individualization - ""New"" Form of Protestant Christianity in the New Paradigm" --- p.51 / Chapter 2.5 --- Collective Life of Christians in the New Paradigm --- p.54 / Chapter 2.6 --- Practice of Spirituality in the New Paradigm Church --- p.60 / Chapter 2.7 --- Summaiy --- p.62 / Chapter 3. --- Background of ASK Church / Chapter 3.1 --- The Social Community of ASK Church --- p.65 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Physical Setting of ASK Church --- p.66 / Chapter 3.3 --- The Congregation of ASK Church --- p.68 / Chapter 3.4 --- Tbe Official Organization of ASK Church --- p.73 / Chapter 3.5 --- Zones and Cell Groups of ASK Church --- p.77 / Chapter 3.6 --- An Evaluation of ASK Church --- p.79 / Chapter 3.7 --- Summary --- p.80 / Chapter 4. --- The Building of Christians: The Individualization of Religion in ASK Church / Chapter 4.1 --- The Christian Way of Living Our Lives --- p.82 / Chapter 4.2 --- Individualization of the Church： Believers as Church --- p.88 / Chapter 4.3 --- The Practice of Spirituality: Faith in Action --- p.99 / Chapter 4.4 --- Summary --- p.118 / Chapter 5. --- The Building of Christians: The Mechanism of ASK Church / Chapter 5.1 --- Tuning in the ASK Channel --- p.121 / Chapter 5.2 --- """Fai Chai"" theology- A Theology for Logs of No Use" --- p.125 / Chapter 5.3 --- Cell Groups in ASK Church --- p.127 / Chapter 5.4 --- A Supportive Atmosphere in ASK Church --- p.155 / Chapter 5.5 --- Celebration in ASK Church --- p.163 / Chapter 5.6 --- Summary --- p.174 / Chapter 6. --- Conclusion / Chapter 6.1 --- The Role of Church in Building Christians --- p.176 / Chapter 6.2 --- A Secular Road to the Sacred --- p.178 / Chapter 6.3 --- Conclusion: Individualization and the Building of Christians in a Cell Church --- p.184 / Chapter 6.4 --- The Next Mile: Implications for Future Research --- p.186 / Appendix: Background information of ASK Church Members Interviewed… --- p.189 / Bibliography --- p.201

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Notre Dame, 2005. / Thesis directed by Philip Bess for the School of Architecture. "April 2005." "This thesis will address the loss within the Protestant Church of a deep understanding of the connection between beliefs and cultural products ... . The subjects of these beliefs are items highly valued by the Church ... . After a reflection on these values, there will be a brief account of the traditions of Protestant church design, followed by a description of a new design adhering to the values ..."--Leaf 3. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 71).

This dissertation examines the attitudes of people regarding the worship music that is being used in South African Protestant churches during the last decade of the twentieth century. The research is aimed at the man-in-the-pew to identify general trends across a variety of denominations. 4920 questionnaires were sent to 980 churches countrywide and completed anonymously. Questions are divided into three categories: personal information, church related, personal opinions. Every question has space for comments. Chapter one is a general discussion on people's opinions and attitudes and the aim and method used. Chapter two is an historical synopsis. Chapter three is an analysis of the questionnaire including hypotheses, graphs, results and comments. Chapter four, the conclusion, identifies general trends regarding formality and informality, choirs and music groups, background music, traditional versus contemporary, education and influence of leaders, the need for policies, use of media and instruments. Proposals are suggested. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / M. Mus.

Objectives. Scholars have debated Max Weber's theory of the relationship between religion and capitalism for almost 100 years. Still, the debate is clouded by confusion over Weber's claims about religious doctrine and over the supporting evidence. The purpose of this study is to clarify Max Weber's claims regarding the concept of the calling and the related "anti-mammon" injunction and concept of "good works" and substantiate with historical evidence the religious doctrine Weber describes. Methods. Comparative analysis of early Protestant Lutheran and Calvinist documents from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was used to flesh out a history of ideas to determine whether evidence exists to support Weber's claims related to religious doctrine. Results. Historical analyses revealed that the concept of the calling pre-dated Luther in the Bible. Luther's innovation was not in his use of the word beruf but in his application of the concept of the calling to the common people and his teaching of that idea. The idea of sanctified work was key in both Lutheran and Calvinist documents. There was an increased emphasis on work and encouragement to accumulate wealth in Calvinist documents. Conclusion. Weber's etymological evidence surrounding Martin Luther's use of the word beruf in his German translation of the bible is idiosyncratic and not important to the transmission of the concept of the calling. Luther's application of the concept of the calling to the laity and idea of sanctified work, however, is the foundation on which the Protestant ethic rests, as Weber claims. Weber's other claims regarding the concept of work in early Protestantism are also supported here. Weber did not overstate the implications for societal transformation in early Protestant theology.

The aim of this thesis is to provide an appropriate evaluation of ecclesiological concept in thinking of Robert Jenson through reading, interpretation and assessment of the text of the book: JENSON, W. Robert. Systematic Theology: The Works of God. Vol. 2., sub-chapter "The Church's Founding", pages 167-188. The focus of his concept is based on presenting multi-dimensional structure of the Church in time-place settings as an intrinsic expression for her catholicity. Term "totus Christus" is an expression for the actual relation of the Head and the Body. Subsequently, author elaborates concept of relation of the Church towards the Church's foundational and within- opened-time-of-delayed-parusia inducing and sustaining realities. In the second part, author elaborates a concept of role of the Spirit as the relational vivifying force of the Christ and the Church; possibility of lack of the Spirit; and indivisible clasp of the Christology, the Pneumatology and the Ecclesiology. Author also deals with concept of the Church as the eschatological detour, which is embedded within a broader framework of the split eschatology (in American theology called "the telescopic eschatology"). The second part of this thesis is based on an idea of the church is a polity of God. Thematically, it is grasped under...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:48:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ivan Santos Ruppell Junior.pdf: 398345 bytes, checksum: d0764d82b307a953cb7c4ca9f0f9d677 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-09-12 / Launched at the beginning of the twentieth century, the book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism became a classic work of Sociology of Religion, when it developed a social analysis method feeling the influence of religion in the society structure. With tests from Calvinists Groups of seventeen and eighteen centuries, the sociologist Max Weber extract elements from Puritan Calvinist Doctrina which ones gave a behavior to Christians in the economic society, generating a new type of capitalism the modern Ocident capitalism. John Calvin was one of the main leaders of the Protestant Reformation of sixteen century and at this time, he transmitted to the Christian Church and to the world, an acknowledged work about Protestant Systematic Theology that became the base of Reformed Churches Doctrina. In this dissertation, we tried to appreciate the analysis of Max Weber about Protestan Ethics, which dominated the spirit of capitalism, like to learn from original writes of Calvin at sixteen century, the proposal of behaviour and elements of Doctrina tha identified an original Protestant Etchic to the reformer thoughts. The purpose is to know and to recover the Calvin thoughts and then the trues and values that formed his different Christian Ethic, to advise the Christian behaviour in society. / Lançado no início do século 20, o livro A Ética Protestante e o Espírito do Capitalismo tornou-se obra clássica da Sociologia da Religião, ao desenvolver método de análise social em percebendo a influência da religião na estrutura da sociedade. Tendo por objeto textos oriundos de grupos Reformados Calvinistas dos séculos 17 e 18, o sociólogo Max Weber extraiu elementos da doutrina puritana calvinista que propiciaram uma conduta aos cristãos em meio à sociedade econômica, gerando assim um novo tipo de capitalismo o capitalismo moderno ocidental. João Calvino é um dos principais líderes da Reforma Protestante do século 16, época em que legou à Igreja Cristã e ao mundo, reconhecida obra de Teologia sistemática Protestante, que se tornou base de doutrina às Igrejas Reformadas. Nesta dissertação, buscamos apreciar a análise de Max Weber acerca da ética protestante que denominou espírito do capitalismo, bem como apreender dos escritos originais de Calvino no século 16, a proposta de conduta e elementos de doutrina que identificariam uma Ética Protestante original ao pensamento do reformador. O propósito é conhecer e resgatar o pensamento próprio a Calvino e assim as verdades e valores formadores de sua distinta ética cristã orientada à conduta do cristão em sociedade.

Chan, Chi Him. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts in English and Chinese; includes Chinese. / Abstract / Acknowledgement / Table of Contents / Notes on the Style / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1 --- Christianity and Late Qing China (1860-1900) / Chapter 1.2 --- The Sources and Their Authors / Chapter 1.3 --- Outline of the Thesis / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Literature Review / Chapter 2.1: --- Works on Chinese Protestant Christians in Late Qing / Chapter 2.1.1: --- Chinese Protestant Christians' Reception of the Bible / Chapter 2.1.2: --- Historical Context of Chinese Protestant Christians / Chapter 2.1.3: --- History of Translation of the Chinese Bible / Chapter 2.2: --- Methodological Review / Chapter 2.2.1: --- Challenges from Hermeneutic Theories / Chapter 2.2.2: --- Hermeneutical Communities and Hermeneutical Strategies / Chapter 2.2.3: --- Cultural Differences and Linguistic Peculiarity / Chapter Chapter 3: --- The General Reception of the Bible by Chinese Protestant Christians / Chapter 3.1: --- Chinese Protestant Christians' General Attitudes towards the Bible / Chapter 3.2: --- Chinese Protestant Christians' Reception of the Old Testament / Chapter 3.3: --- Chinese Protestant Christians' Reception of the New Testament / Chapter Chapter 4: --- "Christianity, Heterodoxy and Social Order" / Chapter 4.1: --- Late Qing Context: Christianity as Heterodoxy / Chapter 4.1.1: --- Legacy of the Taiping Rebellion / Chapter 4.1.2: --- Mingjiao and Christianity / Chapter 4.1.3: --- "Sorcery, Rebellion and Heterodoxy" / Chapter 4.1.4: --- Conflicts over the Building of Churches / Chapter 4.2: --- The Decline of the Qing Dynasty / Chapter 4.2.1: --- The Corruption of the Qing Administration / Chapter 4.2.2: --- The Advance of the West and the Decline of the Qing Court / Chapter 4.3: --- Jesus and his Kingdom in Context / Chapter 4.3.1: --- The Background of the Reception of the Kingdom of Heaven / Chapter 4.3.2: --- The Kingdom of Heaven as the Kingdom for the Dead / Chapter 4.3.3: --- The Kingdom of Heaven Promotes Social Order / Chapter Chapter 5: --- "The Bible, Chinese Traditions and Confucianism" / Chapter 5.1: --- Confucianism and Chinese Traditional Values / Chapter 5.1.1: --- The Development of Academic Confucianism until Late Qing / Chapter 5.1.2: --- The Three Sects and the Tradition of Moral Books / Chapter 5.2: --- Chinese Protestant Christians' Interpretation of the Bible / Chapter 5.2.1: --- Accusation of Violation of Filial Piety and Christians' Response / Chapter 5.2.2: --- The Idea of Reward and Punishment according to Human Behavior / Chapter 5.2.3: --- Salvation on both Morality and Faith / Chapter 5.3: --- Chinese Protestant Christians' Attitudes towards Confucianism / Chapter 5.3.1: --- The Real Heir of Confucianism / Chapter 5.3.2: --- A Tide of Anti-Confucianism? / Chapter Chapter 6: --- Conclusion / Appendix: List of Transliteration of Name used in this Thesis / Bibliography

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